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Paul Sutton wrote:
> alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Posted by "Alex Mclennan" <alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> hi all can someone help me,i am running ubuntu 6.10 and i want to load
>> ubuntu7.10.i have downloaded the iso to desk top and then burnt direct to a disc
>> using gnomebaker i have also tried to do on an xp machine using nero6.
>> both time it burnt the disc fine,my problem is i cant load on the machine.i have
>> put the disc in and restarted the machine it says boot from cd but then continues
>> to load 6.10,am i doing something wrong.
>> my machine has no name but has a p3 1.0ghz cpu with 778mb of ram with 32mb for
>> graphics and has a 20gb laptop hd fitted{this is a very small desktop}.
>> could any answers be simple as i am at the idiot stage in linux learning,
>> thank you,alex
>
> Have you downloaded the md5 file and checked that the downloaded iso is
> not corrupted in some way, you need the correct md5 for the iso you
> downloaded then run md5 sum to check the, essentially it calculates the
> checksum and compares it to the download iso.md5 file if they match then
> no data loss happened during download.
>
> I can't remember the exact command offhand but I am sure someone here
> can give you the correct one.
>
> Paul
>
md5sum -c filename.md5
something like that you mean ?
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